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LLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the Supreme Court of the United States and these are still pend- 

 ing. They are the ones I referred to, on which we are waiting 

 the decisions, and will decide whether we stay in the dairy busi- 

 ness or whether we have got to give up the field to them. It 

 depends upon these decisions. There are four other suits pend- 

 ing. They all will hinge upon the ones argued three weeks 

 ago, except one. 



There was five months of this time in last year spent in 

 coloring their product with palm oil, ai^d it was impossible for any 

 chemical test we could submit it to to determine what they were 

 using. During those five months one company alone failed to pay 

 the government $30,000 which after it was determined what 

 coloring they were using, the government called for and forced 

 them to pay. They paid the $30,000, but commenced suit on the 

 government for a return of this money. 



That is another suit to test the law and nothing more or less 

 than this. Arriving at the same results in another way. If they 

 are successful in this suit, it nullifies the law we have now. 



It has been no pleasure for the officers of the organization 

 to keep up the organization. We formed for the purpose of pro- 

 tecting the dairy industry, and I know the officers were in hopes 

 that at the end of the year we could close. We concluded that 

 if we continued we must hunt for funds and put up a big fight. 

 So we decided to incorporate. We did that within thirty days. 

 It is now the National Dairy Union. We are incorporated under 

 the laws of your state for the purpose of protecting the dairy 

 industry and furthering the dairy industry in every way, shape 

 or manner we can. 



I make this statement to you. It has cost us over $40,000 

 to accomplish what we have. It may seem strange to you to 

 know w^here we got the money. We secured it from the dairy- 

 men of the country from subscriptions. Every creameryman 

 from the west sent subscriptions in and that is principally the way 

 the money was collected. 



After we found it necessary to continue the w^ork another 

 year, we had to raise more funds. We asked all the best author- 



